Concurrent engineering in the tendering process of building and construction

Abstract: CONCUR (Concurrent Design and Engineering in Building and Civil Engineering) is
a four year initiative in the European Union Brite-EuRam workprogramme involving
industry partners Skanska (Se), IVO Power Engineering (Fi) and Taylor Woodrow
(UK), the specification body STABU (Nl), R and D institutions VTT (Fi) and TNO (Nl),
and universities DUT (Nl) and KTH (Se). The project will develop, implement and
industrially deploy an integrated CAx environment for concurrent construction
tendering.
CONCUR is addressing the integration of information in the stages which lead to
submission of tenders. The goal is to reduce tendering cost by 30 - 50% using
integrated information systems and applications. The tendering process is a complex
process involving many disciplines each of which uses different types of information. .
In essence it is an information refinement process, in each refinement cycle
addressing the high risk aspects of the moment.
In CONCUR we are addressing the integrated use of information and applications,
using Project (Product and Process) Data Technology Using the major informational
items the refinement process will come to information specifications. The
specifications being derived are not re-invented but use is made of existing and
emerging standards such as STEP and IAI. Results of the CONCUR efforts can be fed
back to STEP and IAI.

Permission to reproduce these papers has been graciously provided by Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The assistance of the editors, Prof. Bo-Christer Björk and Dr. Adina Jägbeck, is gratefully appreciated.